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...looked solid, Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of BPI, a body that represents the British music industry, said, "Britain's creative industries must not lose out to those of other countries where copyright infringement is being dealt with." In a letter to Britain's Daily Telegraph last week, Brendan Barber, general secretary to the Trades Union Congress, emphasized the potential for job losses: "Any chance to avoid unnecessary job losses must be seized - and for the film, music and TV industries, there has never been a more urgent time. The Government must make Internet Service Providers live up to their responsibility...
...Cuts in aid budgets by the industrialized nations could prove disastrous for some African countries, according to the Africa Progress Panel, a group led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "The financial meltdown that evolved into an economic recession has now become a development crisis," warns the panel's report, released on Wednesday. "Combined with the food crisis, the volatility in fuel costs and climate change, it threatens to reverse Africa's recent progress...
...director-general Dr. Margaret Chan stressed that the agency was declaring the pandemic a "moderate" one, given that the majority of infections are controllable with proper antiviral treatments. But the health agency has met with criticism recently for delaying the pandemic declaration for fear, in part, of stoking public panic...
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...Tuesday. "This is a gauntlet thrown down to authority, to the state." But those "freaks" are actually most likely locals, brought up within the North Caucasus' clan system in which violence and corruption are the law of the land. "The problems for every territory are different," Alexei Makarkin, deputy general director of the think tank Center for Political Technologies in Moscow, tells TIME. "The one thing they all have in common is a culture of clans. This stops the economy from developing and also absorbs the young people. You end up with regular violence and high unemployment. If the Kremlin...